Stanley Darma

Stanley is an MD and PhD candidate at the Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research field is in ophthalmology and optical coherence tomography, making amazing pictures of and performing precise measurements in the human retina everyday.

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News

February 3rd, 2014 Gamification is being used increasingly to educate us and to help solve all kinds of scientific and societal problems. Researchers from Columbia University have now showed us that a video game can help increase stroke awareness in young children. Their results have just been published in journal Stroke. The research showed that in a...
Ophthalmology

December 10th, 2013 The doctor is always curious whether you have been taking your medication, and some drugs are more difficult to administer than others. Numerous ways have already been put to practice to ensure medication compliance, but now another innovation is significantly closer to practical realization: drug-eluting contact lenses to ensure...
News

November 27th, 2013 A taste synthesizer that uses electronic stimulation of the taste buds, providing taste to the tongue: for some of us it may sound very futuristic, but Nimesha Ranasinghe and his team at the National University of Singapore have developed an electrode capable of producing the four major taste components: salt, sweet, sour and...
Dermatology

July 9th, 2013 We had the chance to take a look at the VisualDx mobile app, the mobile version of VisualDx Health, a website that helps in clinical decision making of dermatologic, infectious, genetic, metabolic, nutritional and occupational diseases, benign and malignant growths, drug-induced conditions, and other injuries. The app is available for...
Diagnostics

April 24th, 2013 Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University, led by David Gracias, have been working for quite sometime on wireless microgrippers to improve biopsies. Now two new publications in Gastroenterology and Advanced Materials describe their experiences with the ‘mu-grippers’ to collect cells from the intestinal tract of a pig. The...
Sports Medicine

April 23rd, 2013 Shoulder injuries are sometimes hard to prevent, especially for those in professional sports such as baseball pitchers. Common methods of analyzing shoulder motion make use of cameras and observations by the naked eye. However, a team from Italy and U.S. recently published a study in Musculoskeletal Surgery showing a new method to...
Ophthalmology

April 23rd, 2013 A new therapeutic approach for lazy eye, also known as amblyopia, uses good old Tetris to train the eyes to work together. This innovative approach to a common eye disorder is a result of research done by Dr. Robert Hess from McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada. And yes, you have read correctly: they use a video game to...
Ophthalmology

April 19th, 2013 A new tool for ophthalmologists and optometrists is now available online, making it easier to monitor changes in the eye. EyeIC has released a cloud-based application that allows to easily compare fundus photographs taken at different times of the same patient, or across patients. The unique feature of this online app is the...
News

Rex, the bionic man has arrived and is here to stay. At least for a month, stationed at the London Science Museum. Rex is a two-meter tall artificial human, constructed from the most sophisticated bionic and prosthetic technology its developers could get their hands on. Rex, which is short for Robotic EXoskeleton, was created for...
Rehab

February 6th, 2013 Good news for the elderly who want to stay fit and achieve this goal in their own home, preferably in front of the television. Forget the Wii and forget the Kinect. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits have brought us quite the opposite of a lazy chair. Their new advanced armchair GEWOS can monitor vitals,...
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